Microsoft revealed the official names Monday of the next major upgrades to its Visual Studio software development tools platform and its SQL Server database, which will be called, simply, Visual ...

Microsoft is expected this week to release the first beta of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 software development products. The software giant also plans to announce a low-cost edition of ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant had hoped both products would ship by late summer, but solution providers have said that timetable was overly optimistic. Also on Monday, Microsoft announced ...

SQL Server 2012 is a large, complex product that represents Microsoft's vision of where data is headed. If that vision were to be summed up in one word, that word would be: big. To meet the challenges ...